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Cannes International Film Festival Line up 2021 CANNES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL LINE UP 2021 IN SELECTION IN SELECTION HIT THE ROAD a PANAH PANAHI picture SCREENING SCHEDULE A chaotic, tender family is on a road trip across a rugged landscape, but to P+I SCREENING where? In the back seat, Dad has a broken leg, but is it really broken? Mom Saturday, July 10th - 8.30am tries to laugh when she’s not holding back tears. The kid keeps exploding into Théâtre Croisette choreographed car karaoke. All of them are fussing over their sick dog and getting on each others’ nerves. OFFICIAL SCREENING Saturday, July 10th - 8.30pm Only the mysterious older brother is quiet. Théâtre Croisette CAST ADDITIONAL SCREENINGS Hassan Madjooni - Dad Sunday, July 11th - 9am Pantea Panahiha - Mom Cinéma La Licorne Rayan Sarlak - Little Brother Amin Simiar - Big Brother Sunday, July 11th - 3pm Cinéma Studio 13 WRITER, DIRECTOR & PRODUCER Panah Panahi DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Amin Jafari Sunday, July 11th - 10.45pm EDITOR Ashkan Mehri & Amir Etminan Cinéma Les Arcades - Room 1 Iran / 2021 / 93’ / 1.85:1 / 5.1 / Farsi Friday, July 16th - 7.45pm Théâtre Croisette I AM CHANCE a MARC-HENRI WAJNBERG picture NEW SCREENING LINK AVAILABLE I AM CHANCE UPON REQUEST a MARC-HENRI WAJNBERG picture THE NEW DOCUMENTARY I AM CHANCE follows the microcosm of a group of street savvy girls in the FROM THE surprisingly bright, pop and artistic megacity of Kinshasa. DIRECTOR OF Astute, sassy and resilient, Chancelvie and her friends take on the world, fighting and nurturing, stealing and sharing, turning tricks and making art. KINSHASA KIDS Vibrant and exuberant, Kinshasa itself becomes a character in the film, combining (2012) its voice with that of the girls. selected in over 60 festivals including Venice, Toronto, WITH: Chancelvie Kaponge, Shekinah Sonco, Dodo Mbondo-Bumi New York ... PRODUCERS: Catherine Boes & Marc-Henri Wajnberg (Wajnbross Productions) DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Paul Shemisi MUSIC: KOKOKO!, David Linx EDITING: Filipa Cardoso Belgium - DR Congo - France / 2021 / 86’ / 1.85:1 / 5.1 / Lingala Director’s Note of Intent For ten years, I have made several films with street children in Kinshasa. There are now around 35,000 survivors. For those I have filmed I contribute as much as I can to care for them, integrating them into centers recreating family ties. I participate in financing their education so that they can learn to read and write. Today, some of them have jobs, but most importantly, they all have plans for the future. I met Chancelvie during a previous film shoot, when she was 15 years old and had been living on the streets since she was 8. She fascinated me by with her extraordinary inventiveness and her boundless energy. After the end of the shoot we stayed in touch and we decided to make a film once she told me about her pregnancy. Chancelvie is the pivotal character surrounded by the other street girls and Congolese artists. Through art, these street children find inspiration in their imagination and freedom. In this documentary, there is no commentary on my part in order to give voice to Chancelvie, Shekinah, Dodo and others. They show impressive strength in their ability to fight and overcome their daily difficulties with a stunning, unconcerned joie de vivre. Marc-Henri Wajnberg DEATH OF A LADIES’ MAN a MATTHEW BISSONETTE picture NEW PRESS BOOK TRAILER SCREENING LINK Death of a AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST Ladies’ Man a MATTHEW BISSONNETTE picture from the producers of BROOKLYN, ONCE and CHICAGO Samuel O’Shea, a university professor of poetry, exuberant womanizer and enthusiastic drinker has seen better days. His second marriage is ending, and his wife and children are at their wits’ end with him. More disturbingly, he has begun seeing things: Frankenstein sidles up to the bar and strangers sing and dance to Leonard Cohen tunes. His much-missed father, who died when Samuel was just a boy, pops up for chats. FEATURING SONGS BY At first Samuel thinks it could be the drink, or perhaps he’s just crazy or over- LEONARD COHEN imaginative, but then learns he is gravely ill. Reflecting on the life he has lived, Samuel retreats to his family shack in remote Ireland, where he begins work on that great novel he always meant to write, and generally take stock. Surprisingly, MEMORIES or not, he meets and falls in love with a woman, who is full the unexpected. All BIRD ON THE WIRE this leads Samuel to an utterly unforeseeable happy ending. THE LOST CANADIAN PRODUCERS Corey Marr - Corey Marr Productions (Passenger Side) WHY DON’T YOU TRY / Marie-Claude Poulin - MCP Productions (Brooklyn, Café de Flore) / Martina Niland - Cosmo Films (Once, Sing Street) / Don Carmody - Don HALLELUJAH Carmody Productions (Chicago, Good Will Hunting) / Alexander Kushaev DID I EVER LOVE YOU - Monte Rosso Production HEART WITH NO COMPANION Canada - Ireland / 2020 / 100’ / 2.39:1 / 5.1 / English Gabriel Byrne Brian Gleeson Jessica Paré (Hereditary, Zerozerozero Amazon series, (Phantom Thread, (Mad Men, Seal Team, Standby) Maniac series, Miller’s Crossing, Mother!, Logan Lucky) The Usual Suspects) Karelle Tremblay Antoine Olivier Pilon Suzanne Clément (The Fireflies Are Gone, (Mommy) (Mommy, Versailles, Our Loved Ones) Laurence Anyways) Memory House a JOÃO PAULO MIRANDA MARIA picture Memory TRAILER House PRESS BOOK a JOÃO PAULO MIRANDA MARIA picture Modern day Brazil, but lost in time. Cristovam, a native Black man from the rural North, moves to a former Austrian colony in the South to work in a milk factory. Confronted with xenophobic conservative people, he feels isolated and estranged from the white world. He discovers an abandoned house, filled with objects and memorabilia reminding him of his origins. He settles in, reconnecting with his roots. As if this memory house were alive, more objects start to appear. Slowly, Cristovam begins a metamorphosis. WINNER ROGER EBERT For his feature debut, director João Paulo Miranda Maria uses AWARD spiritual and fantastical story-telling to encapsulate the social and CHICAGO IFF racial tensions of modern day Brazil. PRODUCERS Paula Cosenza, Denise Gomes (BeBossa Entertainment - Brazil) and Didar Domehri (Maneki Films - France) WINNER BEST Brazil - France / 2020 / 93’ / 1.85:1 / 5.1 / Portuguese - German CINEMATOGRAPHY STOKHOLM FF US RELEASE BY FILM MOVEMENT « A nuanced look at systemic racism in Brazil » - VARIETY - « Memory House melds past and present, realism and fantasy, to offer a mesmerising symbolic and political immersion into the Brazilian collective subconscious » - CINEUROPA - a MAJID MAJIDI picture IN COMPETITION SUN TRAILER PRESS BOOK IN COMPETITION WINNER BEST NEW TALENT CHILDREN WINNER BEST FILM HILAL a MAJID MAJIDI picture DOHA AJYAL FILM FESTIVAL SUN CHILDREN is the story of 12-year-old Ali and his three friends. Together they work hard to survive and support their families, doing small jobs in a garage and committing petty crimes to make fast money. BUSAN FILM FESTIVAL In a turn of events that seems miraculous, Ali is entrusted to find hidden treasure OFFICIAL underground. He recruits his gang, but first, to gain access to the tunnel, the SELECTION children must enroll at the Sun School, a charitable institution that tries to educate street kids and child laborers, close to where the treasure is located. Shortlisted for Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Oscars® LEEDS FILM FESTIVAL CAST Rouhollah Zamani, Javad Ezzati, Shamila Shirzad, Ali Nasirian, OPENING Tannaz Tabatabaie, Seyed Mohammad Mehdi Mousavi Fard, Shamila FILM Shirzad, Abofazl Shirzad, Mani Ghafouri, Safar Mohammad, Ali Ghabeshi PRODUCERS Majid Majidi, Amir Banan SAO PAULO WRITERS Majid Majidi, Nima Javidi MOSTRA DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Houman Behmanesh OFFICIAL EDITOR Hassan Hassandoust SELECTION Iran / 2020 / 99’ /1.85:1 / 5.1 / Farsi “A heart-rending story with unexpected depth of emotion… it has guts and heart and a grubby, street-smart charisma. It’s one of the best films playing in this year’s Venice competition… the real treasure is the film” - THE GUARDIAN - “Quite the thrill ride, mixing a Dickensian, social-realist account of children in poverty in Tehran with a kinetic, far-fetched heist movie… a crowdpleaser… a thrilling portrait of youth” - INDIEWIRE - “Majid Majidi has made some of the most visually stunning and emotionally stirring films in world cinema about the plight of underprivileged, exploited and abused young people, and Sun Children is one of his very best” - THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER - “I was reminded of The Florida Project… the kids compel and entertain” - VARIETY - a SUSANNA NICCHIARELLI picture IN COMPETITION Miss TRAILER PRESS BOOK IN COMPETITION Marx SAN a SUSANNA NICCHIARELLI picture SEBASTIAN PERLAS Bright, intelligent, passionate and free, Eleanor is Karl Marx’s youngest daughter. OFFICIAL Among the first women to link the themes of feminism and socialism, she takes SELECTION part in the workers’ battles and fights for women’s rights and the abolition of child labor. In 1883 she meets Edward Aveling and her life is crushed by their passionate but tragic love story. VIENNALE CAST Romola Garai (Suffragettes), Patrick Kennedy (Downton Abbey), FILM FESTIVAL John Gordon Sinclair, Felicity Montagu, Karina Fernandez, Oliver Chris and OPENING Philip Groening FILM PRODUCERS A Vivo film (Marta Donzelli, Gregorio Paonessa) with Rai Cinema, Tarantula Production (Joseph Rouschop, Valérie Bournonville) in coproduction with VOO and Be TV SONOMA FILM FESTIVAL Italy - Belgium / 2020 / 107’ / 1.66:1 / 5.1 / English - German OFFICIAL SELECTION “An explosive performance from star Romola Garai” - Indiewire - “Nicchiarelli’s film feels like its own kind of manifesto” JEONJU - The Telegraph- FILM FESTIVAL OFFICIAL “Miss Marx stands out with its progressive dimension” SELECTION - Telerama - “Garai commands attention as a defiant woman who was punkishly far ahead of her time” - Screen International - “An audacious retelling ... absolutely affecting” - The Guardian - a CARLO S. HINTERMANN picture executive producer TERRENCE MALICK OPENING FILM The Book TRAILER PRESS BOOK OPENING FILM of Vision SAN FRANSISCO INDEPENDENT FF a CARLO S.
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